Interview experience
Hi all,
Thanks for your support all through the months and I can tell you it has not been an easy wait but it’s been worth it. Congratulations Ayoblack and please keep in touch as I no longer have your number. @ Fiso, my husband and I were together b4 we applied, we had a baby and applied as a couple. However, we were not legally married then cos my husband was expecting his papers here in the UK and we could neither go to Naija for the wedding rites or registry here cos he was illegal. We only did the traditional introduction in absentia in naija. We thought we could claim being legally married with that and customary marriage but a lawyer told us to stipulate in the forms that Kentucky sent to us that our introduction was our traditional marriage.
Anyway, my husband got his leave to remain indefinitely here a few weeks after we got the notification of the lottery. We then quickly went to the registry here and I also did a change of name last month.
The Interview Experience.
There was the usual wait and we were eventually called in. My husband was the principal applicant and his educational qualifications and other documents we took with us were collected. They collected our AOS form and our bank statements as prove of means to sustain, we were then directed to go pay the non-refundable fee. We then had to wait for a long time before the actual interview. The interviewer took our fingerprints again and we took an oat. My husband was asked to confirm where he completed his masters program (uk) and first degree (uk) and the job he is presently doing. The interviewer did not ask about the waec cert from naija neither did he mention anything about my USA visiting visa refusal in the same embassy 3 yrs ago. i was not asked any question or why my marriage certificate had a different date to the one in the form were we wrote our trad. marriage date. That was the end of the interview and he congratulated us and told us to expect the visa between 3-5 working days but we got it 2 days later.
Best wishes to all that are remaining.
Hi all,
Thanks for your support all through the months and I can tell you it has not been an easy wait but it’s been worth it. Congratulations Ayoblack and please keep in touch as I no longer have your number. @ Fiso, my husband and I were together b4 we applied, we had a baby and applied as a couple. However, we were not legally married then cos my husband was expecting his papers here in the UK and we could neither go to Naija for the wedding rites or registry here cos he was illegal. We only did the traditional introduction in absentia in naija. We thought we could claim being legally married with that and customary marriage but a lawyer told us to stipulate in the forms that Kentucky sent to us that our introduction was our traditional marriage.
Anyway, my husband got his leave to remain indefinitely here a few weeks after we got the notification of the lottery. We then quickly went to the registry here and I also did a change of name last month.
The Interview Experience.
There was the usual wait and we were eventually called in. My husband was the principal applicant and his educational qualifications and other documents we took with us were collected. They collected our AOS form and our bank statements as prove of means to sustain, we were then directed to go pay the non-refundable fee. We then had to wait for a long time before the actual interview. The interviewer took our fingerprints again and we took an oat. My husband was asked to confirm where he completed his masters program (uk) and first degree (uk) and the job he is presently doing. The interviewer did not ask about the waec cert from naija neither did he mention anything about my USA visiting visa refusal in the same embassy 3 yrs ago. i was not asked any question or why my marriage certificate had a different date to the one in the form were we wrote our trad. marriage date. That was the end of the interview and he congratulated us and told us to expect the visa between 3-5 working days but we got it 2 days later.
Best wishes to all that are remaining.